At least seven Palestinians were injured on Tuesday when the Israeli occupation forces heavily opened fire at peaceful protesters near the border fence east of Deir al-Balah city in the middle area of the Gaza Strip.

Local sources said that as a group of Palestinian youths approached the border fence, the Israeli forces showered them with live ammunition and teargas canisters.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since 30 March have been protesting in the Great March of Return on a daily basis along Gaza border with the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories.

So far 204 Palestinian protesters have been killed by the Israeli army, including 30 children, and over 22,000 injured.

The defense minister continues calling for military campaign in the Gaza Strip, insisting Israel has exhausted all other options; 'We are not willing to accept the level of violence we see one week after another,' he says during visit to Gaza Division.

Defense Minister Avigdor Lieberman reiterated his position on Tuesday that only a "serious blow" to Hamas will put an end to the violent rioting on the Gaza border and the arson terrorism.

"We are not willing to accept the level of violence we see one week after another," the defense minister told reporters during a visit to the Gaza Division, adding "a serious blow to Hamas could bring us at least five more years of quiet."

"The defense establishment has done everything to reach the situation before March 29, before the violence (on the border) broke out—we did this our way, by using force, by using persuasion, by cooperating with those who wanted to help," he explained. "There were all sorts of attempts to reach an arrangement led by Egypt and the UN and UN envoy. We tried all of the other ways, I didn't see any results unfortunately." The "serious blow" he's calling for "must be a decision of the Cabinet. Unfortunately neither the defense minister nor the prime minister can make such a decision on their own." Lieberman explained the last straw was last Friday's rioting, when "after allowing the UN to bring in four tankers of gas (into Gaza) in the morning, in the evening we got a wave of violence, at a level I don't remember."

He also quoted Hamas leaders, including Ismail Haniyeh, who said neither fuel nor salaries will stop the violence. "Their goal is to lift the siege, which means one thing: uninterrupted free ability to bring in weapons, Hezbollah fighters, Iranians into the Gaza Strip—and we will never allow that," Lieberman said. "They want to get salaries, fuel, all of the benefits without giving anything back, without an arrangement on the MIAs and POWs, without giving up the article in their charter that calls for the annihilation of the State of Israel, and of course without giving up the manufacturing of weapons and the digging of tunnels," the defense minister explained. "To me, there's only one formula: reconstruction in return for disarmament." Lieberman accused Hamas of inflaming the tensions. "15,000 people don't just come of their own accord to the border fence. Hamas is bringing them, paying for the buses, Hamas members go out and call on residents to get in the buses, then they drive them there. Hamas set up tents there and is trying to turn it into an event. This isn't the spontaneous action of innocent residents; it's the Hamas members who bring people almost by order. Had Hamas not paid for the transportation, no one would've come on foot to the border," he asserted. "They think they figured out a new trick—putting pressure on the Israeli government, on Israeli society. They think they're eroding our steadfastness, our deterrence," Lieberman added. "It's time to put an end to it."

Israeli navy and soldiers attacked, Monday, dozens of Palestinian protesters, demanding an end to the deadly siege on the Gaza Strip, and injured 19 Palestinians with live fire, in addition to causing dozens to suffer the effects of teargas inhalation.

The procession was organized by the Higher National Committee for the Great Return March, in the Gaza Strip, and was attended by hundreds of Palestinians along the eastern parts of the coastal region.

Media sources said the protesters gathered the shore, while many boarded boats that sailed in Gaza territorial waters, before the soldiers and the navy opened fire at them. videovideo

The sources added that 19 Palestinians were shot with live Israeli army fire, and dozens suffered the effects of teargas inhalation.

Most of the injuries tool place near Zikim military base, especially when some protesters managed to briefly cross through the northern Gaza, and the soldiers fired a barrage of live rounds at them. video

Some protesters also managed to cut sections of the barb-wire fence in northern Gaza, and raised Palestinian flags.

Many protesters also burnt dozens of tires to limit the vision of the Israeli army sharpshooters, in the sea, and across the perimeter fence.

The Higher National Committee said the participation in today’s processions was the largest since the naval protests started, and added that the Palestinians are determined to continue the struggle for their legitimate rights, despite the escalating military violations, the fatal use of force, and the repeated threats by Israeli political leaders to wage a comprehensive war on the besieged coastal region.

It also called on the international community, and the United Nations, to uphold their responsibilities, and act on ending the deadly Israeli siege on two million Palestinians, living in poverty and “in the largest open-air prison on earth.”

A Palestinian youth was injured on Sunday evening when the Israeli occupation forces (IOF) opened fire at peaceful demonstrators marching along Gaza's border with the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories.

The PIC reporter said that the IOF heavily opened fire at a group of Palestinians near the border fence east of Gaza injuring a young man with a live bullet to the leg.

Night demonstrations along the border fence have recently become a major part of the Great March of Return in the Gaza Strip.

Palestinian youths during these demonstrations usually set fire to car tires, fly fire kites over the border fence, and sing national songs.

The Great March of Return since its start on 30 March has witnessed a large participation by the Palestinian citizens, especially youths, of the Gaza Strip. Despite being completely peaceful, the border protests have been met with violence that caused dozens of deaths.

A Palestinian young man suffered different injuries after an Israeli airstrike targeted on Sunday evening a group of Palestinians east of Beit Hanoun to the north of Gaza Strip.

Local sources said that the injured youngester was taken to hospital for medical treatment, where his condition was described as moderate.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since 30 March have been protesting on a daily basis along the border fence to call for lifting the blockade on the coastal enclave and allowing refugees to return to their lands from which they were expelled in 1948.

So far over 200 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army and nearly 20,000 injured.

At least seven Palestinians have been killed and 112 others injured by Israeli fire during anti-occupation protests at the border of the besieged Gaza Strip with the occupied territories.

The Gaza Health Ministry said Israeli forces killed seven Palestinians on Friday, four of them east of al-Bureij refugee camp.

Ashraf al-Qidra, a spokesman for the ministry, identified the victims who lost their lives east of al-Bureij as Ahmed al-Tawil, Muhammad Ismail, Abdullah al-Dagham, all in their twenties, as well as the 17-year-old Ahmed Abu Naim.

Afifi Atta, 18, was also among the protesters killed on Friday, the spokesman added.

According to the report, 112 Palestinians, including children and females, were wounded during the clashes, most of them with live fire. videovideovideovideovideovideo

Among those wounded, a girl was critically injured while five other people were in serious condition.

Tensions have been running high near the fence since March 30, which marked the start of a series of protests dubbed “The Great March of Return.” Palestinian protesters demand the right to return for those driven out of their homeland.

The clashes in Gaza reached their peak on May 14, the eve of the 70th anniversary of Nakba Day, or the Day of Catastrophe, which coincided this year with Washington's relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to occupied Jerusalem al-Quds.

More than 190 Palestinians have so far been killed and over 20,000 others wounded in the renewed Gaza clashes, according to the latest figures released by the Gaza Health Ministry.

Gaza has been under Israeli siege since June 2007, causing a decline in living standards as well as unprecedented unemployment and poverty.

Israel has also launched several wars on the Palestinian sliver, the last of which began in early July 2014 and ended in late August the same year. The Israeli military aggression killed nearly 2,200 Palestinians and injured over 11,100 others.

Al-Qedra said that 192 protesters were injured, 140 of whom by live ammunition and three are in critical condition. There are 45 children, eight girls, and two paramedics among the injured.

Thousands of Palestinians marched in the afternoon along the border between the Gaza Strip and the 1948 occupied Palestinian territories to take part in the protests of the 29th Friday of the Great March of Return.

The PIC reporter said that the Israeli forces fired live ammunition and teargas canisters at the unarmed protesters, while Palestinian youths responded by burning dozens of car tires in an effort to block the view of Israeli snipers.

The Higher National Committee for the Great March of Return and Breaking the Siege earlier this week called on Palestinians in the Gaza Strip to participate in Friday's protests and commemorate the anniversary of al-Quds Intifada which broke out in October 2015.

The committee affirmed in a statement that the Great March of Return will continue until it achieves its goals.

Palestinians in the Gaza Strip since 30 March have been protesting on a daily basis along the border fence to call for lifting the blockade on the coastal enclave and allowing refugees to return to their lands from which they were expelled in 1948.

So far over 200 Palestinians have been killed by the Israeli army and nearly 20,000 injured.

The latest figures show that 14 Palestinians, including four children, were killed, while 1,434 were injured by Israeli forces during demonstrations between September 23 and October 6, at the Gaza border with Israel, according to a special situation report[pdf] by the World Health Organization (WHO) issued on Wednesday.

The report also said, according to WAFA, that from the 30th of March, the start of the March of Return protests on the Gaza borders with Israel, until the 6th of October, 205 Palestinians have been killed. Out of the total number killed, 190 people were killed by Israeli forces during the demonstrations and 15 people killed during Israeli attacks.

It said that, out of the total 1,434 injured, 737 patients required transfer to hospitals or clinics, including 150 children and 32 females. Of the hospitalized injured, 12 cases were critically life threatening, 245 moderate, 453 mild and the remaining 27 were unspecified cases.

In addition, said the WHO report, the total number of amputations during the entire period was 81, including 15 children and one female. Out of this total, 73 were lower limb amputations and 8 upper limb amputations.